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As China Rejects Carbon Caps, Krugman Pushes Carbon Tariffs
Trying to surmise if China will be willing to agree to greenhouse gas caps is like reading tea leaves. Last week, we got a good sign, via Britain's climate change secretary ("I think they're up for a deal."). Then yesterday, this downer from China
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Fred Krupp at the World Innovation Forum: Cap and Trade will Drive Eco-innovation
Attendees from over twenty countries filled the Nokia Theater in NYC this past week to hear speakers on a range of topics, including
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TreeHugger Goes to Copenhagen (At Least on Paper)
Mayor Bondam of Copenhagen Puts Best of Green Plaque on his Office's WallFor Earth Day this year, TreeHugger held the first annual Best of Green awards, with 177 winners in 8 categories. One of them, in the Cars & Transportation category, was the city
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Denmark's Climate Change Expert in Washington Talks Copenhagen
When it comes to climate change policy, Denmark's eyes and ears on the ground in Washington, DC, belong to Hans Eriksen. We met with him at the Green Apple Festival last weekend and asked about the meaning of Earth Day this year, his expectations for a
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Best of Green: Travel + Nature (Slideshow)
Update: Vote now for Best of Show! Now that the initial voting period has ended, it's time to vote for the 'Best in Show' -- check out the category winners in the Best in Show slideshow, and then click over to Planet Green to View & Vote for your
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Will China and the US Go Big on Climate Cooperation?
At the center of efforts to bring down greenhouse gases -- efforts that must involve the world's two highest-emitting countries -- aren't just issues of politics and security, but the curious conflicting desires of both of
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Meet The Food You Eat: Measuring Carbon Footprints With a Kitchen Scale
Three students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design have experimented in physical representations of the environmental impacts of food. Their project, Meet the Food You Eat measures the CO2 emissions resulting from food transport and the
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Amsterdam Edging Ahead of Copenhagen as Most Bike-Loving Euro-Capital?
Both Copenhagen and Amsterdam can be proud of their impressive cycling statistics and ongoing investment in infrastructure. Copenhagen claims 36 percent of its commuters bike to work every morning. Amsterdam gives a slightly different and still
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More Gyms Are Tapping into Pedaling for Power...and also for Profit
It is now officially a trend. While human-generated energy has previously been mostly limited to one-off solutions rigged together by inventive tinkerers, at least four gyms globally have now
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New York City Considers Bike Share Program...From Danes
In New York City only 1% of the city's commuter trips are estimated to be by bicycle. But overall ridership in NYC has increased 344%
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Solar Power, Sea-Water Heating and a New 'Bridge' for Copenhagen
Steven Holl Architects have made our pages before — from a huge 'eco-complex' in China, to the shiny Whitney Water Purification facility. Now we hear via Inhabitat and The Guardian that the ground-breaking architect has won a competition to
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Three Cool RFID Projects to Deter Bicycle Thefts
Bike theft is a huge bummer and a always-growing problem in cities where bicycles are used more and more for daily transport. Amsterdam has always had a big theft problem, and 20,000 bike were stolen last year in the city of Copenhagen. Bike sharing
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Copenhagen Cyclists Take Over Main City Thoroughfare
More cyclists. That's the unscientific conclusion of some quick on-the-spot reporting by Denmark's iByen newspaper after the city of Copenhagen decided on a three-month experiment starting October 1 to shut out car traffic on
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Gloomy Economy Doesn't Stop the Danes From Eating More Organic
While in Britain researchers have found organic sales suffering slightly as consumers feel the gloom of high oil prices and global economic woes, in Denmark organic food consumption,
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Copenhagen Chooses Low-Rise Over Skyskrapers in City Expansion
It only takes five minutes in the city of Copenhagen (especially when arriving by train) to wonder why all cities aren't developing in this same mold - plenty of open streets with wide pedestrian and bike lanes, bikes to easily
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Danish Climate Goal 2009: World's Biggest Fleet Of Electric Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars
The UN post-Kyoto Copenhagen Climate Conference summit meeting to take place next year is pushing Danes to build up a quick fleet of battery-driven hybrid fuel cell cars.
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Does Green Box Biking Reduce Right Hook Collisions?
Portland is a cyclist's city with expanding bike paths (200 miles installed since 2000) and increasing numbers of riders, but also some pain and problems as more cyclists and motorists try to co-exist. On inner-city rides it is easy to feel that a
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Copenhagen To Join Congestion Tax Cities
It's hard to live in Sweden, having to envy the Danish their magnificent city of Copenhagen. Not only does it have a great big-city pulse, it just feels so much more green aware than any place on our side of the Kattegat sound. Stockholm may have been
